Starter quiz
- Select the pair of near-homophones.
- weary ✓
- here
- wary ✓
- hear
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- Select the pair of homonyms.
- who's
- wound ✓
- whose
- wound ✓
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- Select the pair of homophones.
- prince
- price
- principle ✓
- principal ✓
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- Match the pair of words with the correct label.
- board and bored⇔homophones ✓
- match and match⇔homonyms ✓
- proceed and precede⇔near-homophones ✓
- Choose the correct spelling to complete the following sentence. It is wrong to...
- steel
- steil
- steal ✓
- stele
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence: Last to arrive were the bridel party.
- 'bridal' ✓
Exit quiz
- Select the pair of homophones.
- lice
- licence ✓
- license ✓
- licensing
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- Match the homophones.
- sell⇔cell ✓
- tail⇔tale ✓
- cereal⇔serial ✓
- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold. The cent of the flowers was glorious.
- sent
- sennt
- csent
- scent ✓
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- Choose the correct spelling for the word in bold. Every Saturday, I practis playing football in the park.
- practice
- practise ✓
- pracktise
- praktice
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- Choose the correct spelling to complete the following sentence: The __________ predicted the future.
- profecy
- professy
- prophesy
- prophecy ✓
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- Correct the spelling of the word in bold in the following sentence. Check the temprature before you get into the bath.
- 'temperature' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings are called homophones.
- 'Licence' and 'license' and 'practice' and 'practise' are homophones.
- 'Prophecy' and 'prophesy' are homophones.
- We can look for naughty letters to help us to remember tricky spellings.
- How to spell the curriculum words: temperature and aggressive.
Common misconception
Pupils will mistakenly use -ce endings for verbs instead of -se endings or vice versa.
Look at a selection of words that fit this spelling pattern and help them to recognise that -ce typically indicates a noun, whilst -se indicates a verb.
Keywords
Homophone - words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings
Word class - different types of words that are used to form sentences
Context - the surrounding words or sentences that help determine the meaning of a word or phrase
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